player setup.exe

Digital Plugin SL

This is the Softpulse installer which bundles applications with offers for additional 3rd party software, mostly unwanted adware, and may be installed with minimal consent. The application player setup.exe by Digital Plugin SL has been detected as adware by 27 anti-malware scanners. The program is a setup application that uses the Softpulse SoftwareBundler installer. The file has been seen being downloaded from kyle.mxp2393.com and multiple other hosts.
Publisher:
Digital Plugin SL  (signed and verified)

MD5:
d764b2ffb897163583ce1be1b93f26f8

SHA-1:
b0d744f4584b1828a7460e224bda5e24dbd11153

SHA-256:
dd835d719c6e1b156aaad24ab8cad40eb1afded573dbc3c07de855ea6c2203bd

Scanner detections:
27 / 68

Status:
Adware

Description:
This is also known as bundleware, or downloadware, which is an downloader designed to simply deliver ad-supported offers in the setup routine of an otherwise legitimate software.

Analysis date:
11/25/2024 3:44:50 PM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Lavasoft Ad-Aware
Trojan.Generic.11816518
791

Agnitum Outpost
Riskware.Agent
7.1.1

AhnLab V3 Security
PUP/Win32.SmartSecure
2014.09.28

Avira AntiVirus
APPL/Softpulse.Gen8
7.11.174.250

avast!
Win32:SoftPulse-AH [PUP]
2014.9-140924

AVG
Generic
2015.0.3342

Bitdefender
Trojan.Generic.11816518
1.0.20.1700

Clam AntiVirus
Win.Trojan.Softpulse-46
0.98/19443

Emsisoft Anti-Malware
Trojan.Generic.11816518
8.14.12.06.03

ESET NOD32
Win32/SoftPulse.K potentially unwanted application
8.7.0.302.0

Fortinet FortiGate
W32/Buzus.TVJF!tr
9/24/2014

F-Secure
Trojan.Generic.11816518
11.2014-06-12_7

G Data
Trojan.Generic.11816518
14.9.24

herdProtect (fuzzy)
2014.12.6.8

K7 AntiVirus
Trojan
13.183.13504

Kaspersky
Trojan.Win32.Buzus
14.0.0.3203

Malwarebytes
PUP.Optional.SoftPulse
v2014.09.24.11

McAfee
SoftPulse
5600.6998

Microsoft Security Essentials
Threat.Undefined
1.185.1297.0

MicroWorld eScan
Trojan.Generic.11816518
15.0.0.1020

NANO AntiVirus
Trojan.Win32.SoftPulse.dflmyv
0.28.2.62286

nProtect
Trojan.Generic.11816518
14.09.26.01

Panda Antivirus
Trj/Genetic.gen
14.09.24.11

Reason Heuristics
PUP.Installer.DigitalPluginSL.M
14.9.24.11

Sophos
SoftPulse
4.98

Vba32 AntiVirus
BScope.Adware.Softpulse
3.12.26.3

VIPRE Antivirus
Threat.4783235
32938

File size:
1.3 MB (1,367,080 bytes)

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Bundler/Installer:
Softpulse SoftwareBundler

Common path:
C:\users\{user}\downloads\player setup.exe

Digital Signature
Authority:
Thawte, Inc.

Valid from:
5/26/2014 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/27/2015 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN=Digital Plugin SL, O=Digital Plugin SL, L=Adeje, S=Santa Cruz de Tenerife, C=ES

Issuer:
CN=Thawte Code Signing CA - G2, O="Thawte, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
4DFD897866A8F5930B794CCCDAA3E5A1

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
9/23/2014 2:52:03 PM

OS version:
5.1

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
11.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:TGjJZtAXaMb5YpCCNAfGU64giomYhXlZwVBhVS+JbIHICWKotTn+:TGNZpbmfLRgioDXz+BhA3SvVn

Entry address:
0x6D2E

Entry point:
E8, 26, 40, 00, 00, E9, 7F, FE, FF, FF, E9, 3C, 02, 00, 00, FF, 35, 78, 4C, 46, 00, FF, 15, 6C, 50, 41, 00, 85, C0, 74, 02, FF, D0, 6A, 19, E8, 1D, 38, 00, 00, 6A, 01, 6A, 00, E8, C6, 46, 00, 00, 83, C4, 0C, E9, DD, 46, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 56, FF, 75, 08, 8B, F1, E8, 5F, 47, 00, 00, C7, 06, 30, B7, 45, 00, 8B, C6, 5E, 5D, C2, 04, 00, C7, 01, 30, B7, 45, 00, E9, 6A, 47, 00, 00, 55, 8B, EC, 83, EC, 10, EB, 0D, FF, 75, 08, E8, 24, 48, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74, 0F, FF, 75, 08, E8, 07, 02, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 74...
 
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Code size:
78.5 KB (80,384 bytes)

The file player setup.exe has been seen being distributed by the following 2 URLs.

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